Yves Langlois (born 1947) a.k.a. Pierre Seguin was a

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terrorist and member of the

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(FLQ), the group responsible for the 1970

October crisis The October Crisis () was a chain of political events in Canada that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Labour Minister Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross f ...

. Langlois is one of the men who kidnapped British Trade Commissioner to Canada

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. Langlois also helped in the kidnapping and killing of Quebec cabinet minister

Pierre Laporte Pierre Laporte (; 25 February 1921 – 17 October 1970) was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician. He was deputy premier of the province of Quebec when he was kidnapped and murdered by members of the Front de libération du Québec (FL ...

who was another victim in the kidnappings. Langlois was arrested in

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for possession of illegal firearms and was sentenced to 2 years in prison. After 11 years of voluntary exile in Cuba and France, he returned to Canada in 1982.

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